19 July 2015

I've almost finished my January 2014 album; this layout is the last of the Australia Day pages. I was prompted by a cyber crop challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks to use three different ribbons. I used the ribbons on some homemade tags:

06 July 2015

I love windmills... of all kinds. One day I'd like to see a 'real' Dutch windmill, but until then I'll continue to enjoy our Australian ones. I interpretted the challenge literally, and took inspiration from the windmill itself:

The twist is to use something made from wood; I used CE Fall Leaves wood veneers:

02 July 2015

I've had these photos from National Youth Week printed out for a while but I didn't really know what I was going to do with them. I decided it was time to scrap them and move on, so I picked a few different challenges to inspire me. This is the layout:

The July stash challenge at Scrap Our Stash inspired my choice of materials ~ always a good feeling to rummage through my stash and find something just right for the job!

01 July 2015

What an inspirational picture this month at Pixels and Paper. One day I'd love to experience this vista for real:

Here is my take:

The dry Australian landscape is a long way from the iconic domes of Santorini! I was immediately drawn to the bold architectural shapes, which inspired my choice of background paper. It also occurred to me that this scenic vista was framed in portrait, whereas it is typically photographed in landscape. (Do a quick Google search for 'Santorini' images and you'll see what I mean.) So I did the same with the photograph choice on my layout - I used a scenery shot of what would typically be framed in landscape, and framed it in portrait instead, which does provide quite a different perspective, I think.

27 June 2015

It's school holidays, and I enjoyed a fun Saturday scrappy session with J-girl... it's been a LONG time since we sat down together to do crafty stuff. We tried something new ~ a quad easel card. I followed Michelle's tutorial at Flying Unicorns.

Top easel view:All four panels viewed when flattened, and side view of one of the panels:

This is the quad easel card that J-girl made today. So proud of her for trying something new and following it through to completion!

Easel view from top:

View of all four panels when 'flattened':

I'm submitting Jazi's card at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge for the Tools theme. Jazi used my supplies, including old Basic Grey Sugared papers.
Despite not doing any scrapbooking for over a year, she still loves
using all kinds of scrapbooking tools, including the guillotine and butterfly punch. Her favourite thing is still the Cuttlebug,
which she used to make the title. She used my MFT Die-namics alphabet
dies the first time, which also required a metal adaptor plate ~ another
first for her.

The extra criteria for Scrap Our Stash was to use the leftovers to create a card. I already used mostly offcuts to create my layout, so I didn't have much to work with... but this is what I came up with:

21 June 2015

This layout was inspired by a sketch from Stuck?! Sketches. It's been a while since I joined in over there, but this sketch (with some liberal tweaking on my part) was just right for the photographs:

I included some altered chipboard for the challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks cybercrop. I cut the frame in half, then heat embossed with glitter embossing powder:

This layout was also inspired by Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge with their June Tools theme. I put aside my pile of travel photographs and searched out some photographs of my husband working at home in the yard. He uses all kinds of power tools in his projects, but for this one it was back to the old trenching tool while laying the foundations for the new duck enclosure.

A BIT ABOUT ME

I am most at peace when I am creating something. My blog is a way of recording and sharing some of my favourite creations, some of the sources of my inspiration, and some of my favourite spots in the cyber arena.
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